Quote Originally Posted by Rymm View Post
Ah, here it is. Let's drop the façade of those "poor little new players beaten down by the MSQ" and get to the real root of your post. It's not the new players playing the MSQ for the first time (when it's all new and exciting), it's people who choose to level multiple characters and are "forced" to see the MSQ over and over in order to do so that spawned this thread.
If you've been around other MMO forums etc it's a very common complaint you hear about FFXIV being a tiring and slow experience to start, compared to other MMOs. I've read many times about people quitting because of this and I'd definitely consider it a good argument, even if it wasn't actually OP's intention (who cares what OP's intention is anyway). I've never created an alt and don't plan to ever do so but still want there to be a voluntary function that makes MSQ optional and it's not because of alts, but because I want endgame to be (even) more populated and have more players enjoying the game I'm sinking most time in.

It would also make it feasible for me to perhaps invite friends to the game, since there's absolutely no way I see them going trough all the MSQ just to start getting to the exciting combat content. Really though, I think most overestimate how much people value story in MMOs and video games in general, most people are just impatient and want to have a stimulating time when gaming. The type of person that goes out of their way to be active on forums will obviously be more inclined to be invested in lore and follow the story diligently, but I doubt it's a representative crowd.